Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.